Globalisation and the North/South Divide: An Overview

Thomas W. D. Davis
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Thomas W. D. Davis: University of Melbourne, Australia

Chapter 15 in Handbook on International Political Economy, 2012, pp 231-247 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Abstract'North' and 'South' have been established terms of use in debates about international political economy since the 1960s. In their most basic form the terms are regarded as a shorthand for distinguishing 'rich countries' from 'poor countries'. 'The North' is taken to include the industrialised, high-per-capita income, national political economies of which the majority are located in the Northern Hemisphere. 'The South' describes those countries with high levels of poverty and comparatively low levels of industrialisation, large numbers of which exist in the Southern Hemisphere…

Keywords: Political Economy; International Political Economy; Industrial Revolution; Liberal Capitalism; Markets; Production; Consumption; Trade; Finance; Globalization; Work; North/South; Gender; Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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